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The recent onslaught of QR technology has meant that the occurrence | |||
of visual signifiers which only machines can read and write is | |||
becoming increasingly commonplace in areas once solely the realm | |||
of the human-readable. Walls Have Ears is a generative installation | |||
that gently prods this brave new world of synthetic literacy by also | |||
engendering the machine with the ability to listen. Over the duration | |||
of Generative Art 2011 in Rome, the machine was continuously | |||
overhearing human presenters’ speech direct from the lectern. | |||
In much the same manner humans acquire a foreign spoken language, | |||
the most talented artificial speech-to-text transcription relies heavily | |||
on situated cognition, and as such, also exhibits the peculiar tendency | |||
to hear something other than what was actually said. Interpolating | |||
rhythm, cadence and context, the machine builds its own account of | |||
what has transpired, and leaves behind a document that is as elastic, | |||
disjointed and poetic as any narrative penned by a mere person. | |||
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